Automatic Generation of Crosswalks through CIDOC CRM

In this paper, we propose an algorithm that automatically generates crosswalks between metadata schemas. The algorithm exploits the mappings between the schemas and the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM), defined as part of an ontology-based integration architecture proposed by our research team. These mappings are expressed in a rule-based path oriented language, named Mapping Description Language (MDL). The algorithm is evaluated by producing a crosswalk from Encoded Archival Description (EAD) to VRA Core 4.0.